Only the boarding students in Liancheng No. 1 Middle School need to study in the evening, and the day students generally sneak home after the afternoon class.

By the time the dance party for Class 6 was officially over, it was already nearly nine o'clock in the evening, and it was only half an hour before the last evening self-study class ended. The students had a great time, holding the newly changed ranking tags and saying goodbye to each other with joyful faces.

Yu Mian has been disguised quite well since he was recognized by Yang Yu, and he has been obediently dangling beside Shen Zhijin, and he has not been recognized by others again. The flatform shoes were really difficult to walk, and the clown changed into spare sneakers at the suggestion of Dabai.

The night is already dark, and the street lamps are enough to see the way forward. Before class ended, the lively campus was quiet during the day, and there were only a few people on the road.

The track and field was still some distance away from the school gate, and Shen Zhijin was afraid that Yu Mian would be afraid, so he acquiesced to the behavior of following a small tail behind him.

Yu Mian licked the last lollipop that came by the way, and asked Shen Zhijin what to say.

"Tablemate, where do you live?"

"It's not far from school."

"Oh, will you walk home later?"

"Hmm."

"How long does it take to get there?"

"About ten minutes."

"Are there lights on the road?"

"Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn't."

"Isn't there a way to walk in the dark? Would you be scared at the same table? ”

"No, it won't." Shen Zhijin was afraid that Yu Mian would ask about his kindergarten final exam results if he asked again, so he started another topic: "Have you finished writing all the homework assigned in the past few days?" ”

Yu Mian immediately behaved a lot, and said seriously: "Written, especially mathematics, compulsory one, I have already learned the fourth chapter as you said." ”

"You study hard, learn a little bit every day. When the mid-term exam is due, even if the scope of the exam becomes all the knowledge learned in the first and second years of high school, you will not know anything. ”

"Uh-huh."

Soon arrived at the school gate, Fei Xuye sat in the car and picked up Uncle Liu together. Yu Mian opened the car door, and said goodbye to him with a big smile on the makeup of the ever-smiling clown: "Good night, same table." ”

It's not scary, it's not weird, it's stupid and cute, maybe it's just because she did it.

After a pause for a few seconds, Shen Zhijin also smiled and said good night.

Shen Zhijin didn't lie to Yu Mian, his home was indeed only ten minutes away from the school, and the street lights came and went. But instead of living in an expensive school district next to the school, which is quiet at night, he lives in a dilapidated neighborhood two blocks away.

The dilapidated area is the name given to this place by outsiders, and as the name suggests, the houses in this neighborhood are very dilapidated.

The walls were an old, dull yellow, with cracks and sinking, and there were large expanses of creepers. The windows are often incomplete, broken glass does not fill the old-fashioned window wells, and the owners often cover the entire window with discarded bed sheets.

Stray dogs and cats wander around the dirty wooden gate of the community, licking their fur while watching the hurried and mediocre residents here.

It used to be a workers' dormitory built behind a coal mine, but after the mine was shut down in violation of regulations, this workers' dormitory was not easy to manage. In the end, it evolved into a rental house, but because of the poor conditions and poor security, the price of housing in the school district on the other side was several times cheaper.

Shen Zhijin lives here.

The old wooden door creaked softly, and when Shen Zhijin entered the door, a stray cat jumped away in start, meowed vigilantly, and disappeared into the dark night.

On the road, a drunk man fell crookedly to the ground and swore something. There are also several empty wine bottles next to him, the cheapest kind, which are sold in a small and narrow shop in the community, two dollars a bottle.

Shen Zhijin bought it, he remembered.

He walked by with a flat expression, carried his schoolbag on one shoulder and went straight to the second floor of the third unit, opened the door with the key and entered the house.

"Ah Jin, are you back?" The woman in the room coughed uncomfortably and coughed a few times, and then regained the gentleness in her tone: "I left you food on the table, and it's still hot... Eat and sleep. ”

Shen Zhijin lowered his eyes and asked for a long time: "Mom, did you go to the hospital for a check-up today?" ”

"Ouch, what do I want to check, just a simple cough, and it will be fine in a few days." The woman suppressed and gasped a few times, trying to reassure: "Mom is fine, you don't have to worry." As long as you study hard, it is your mother's greatest happiness, and you don't have to worry about other things... You don't have to worry about it. ”

This room is very small, a small room with a small living room, a small table is placed in the corner of the living room by the window, and there is a wok and rice cooker on the table, which is considered a kitchen, and the toilet is shared on each floor.

Mother Shen Tianyi lived in that small room, and Shen Zhijin placed a small single bed in the living room.

Even a small home with such conditions is a place for Shen Zhijin to wait for a long time for more than ten years.

Shen Zhijin put his schoolbag on the chair, and suddenly remembered the big white doll costume in the bag that he would return tomorrow. He knew that Yu Mian's schoolbag ornaments and keychains were small white plush dolls, and he knew that Yu Mian liked Da Bai.

Poor little ····· Are you home now?

*

In the car, Fei Xuye looked at Yu Mian, who had not changed into a clown costume in surprise, and sighed: "It's still Teacher Quan, so many fun activities for you, your sophomore in high school is more nourishing than my freshman in high school, it's really unfair to God." ”

Yu Mian said hello to Uncle Xiao Liu before replying to Fei Xuye's words: "How do you know that our team was built,"

"You don't know this, sister, it's the Internet era, and the little thing in your class has been broadcast live since seven o'clock in the evening, and now there are no bottoms at all."

Yu Mian flipped through the messages on his mobile phone and said casually: "Then you are really idle." ”

"This is our leisure, mainly because your class has such interesting activities, so naturally they are all staring at you."

Fei Xuye's sharp eyes had just left the school gate with Shen Zhijin, and he was very concerned about it, so Baba leaned over and asked, "Mianmian, why did you come out with that Shen Zhijin just now." ”

Yu Mian raised his head: "Isn't it just a matter of walking together along the way, what do you have to ask?" ”

"There's nothing to ask, you're so excited." Fei Xuye pouted: "Now I'm not the only one who wants to ask, how many people are staring at your every move." ”

Yu Mian only received more attention after he became a colonel, and he didn't ask more.

It remembered Shen Zhijin's words, hesitated for a while, and then said: "Do you know which neighborhood is the place where you are about ten minutes walk from the school and the street lights are here and there?" ”

"Street lights come and go? Now there is no place where there are even street lights. ”

After the words fell, Fei Xuye seemed to think of something: "Don't say that there is really one, but that community is very broken, and the law and order are also very chaotic." ”

"We all call it the shabby district."